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American Airlines has released the first pictures inside their new 787 and annouced which routes that the airline plane will fly starting this May!!
On initial review of the first few pictures I must admit the airplane looks quite nice and continues to raise the bar in travel standards from ...

Alaska Airline has been busy defending their ground in the battle for Seattle with Delta this year and has expanded new service from Seattle to Baltimore, Detroit, Albuquerque, Tampa, and Cancun and has also grown in Salt Lake Cities by increasing frequencies between Seattle and Salt Lake and ...

Alaska Airline is expanding in Seattle again as they announce a number of new routes from Seattle to the south, east coast, and Midwest. The Airline, trying to fend off Delta’s rapid expansion in Seattle, is looking to quickly expand into a number of markets that the airline doesn’t ...

Delta continues to expand in Seattle and encroaches on routes that have been long time Alaska Airline strong holds with more domestic flights to and from Seattle. This all began in March of 2012 when Delta announced expansion plans in Los Angeles. Included in that plan were new routes to ...

Air India is an airline that never seems to shock anyone these days with its never-ending drama. Plagued by operational, financial, political and HR-related issues, just to name a few, Air India has likely watched the sun set on any hopes of successfully joining the ranks of Emirates, Singapore or ...

June 12, 2013 American Airlines initiated nonstop service from San Diego to Miami, reopening a route that has not been served in over 20 years! The relaunch of this route will not only connect point-to-point travelers, but open up a slew of markets via 1 stop to the Caribbean, Latin America, and ...

The battle for the Los Angeles market is heating up and Delta is rolling up their sleeves and are bringing everything to the table to up their market share in LA. Today, Delta reminded travelers they are committed to the LAX market, by announcing a number of new flights from LAX this summer that ...

If you’re an LA based flyer and you’re like me, weekends in Vegas just got cheaper thanks to ANOTHER airline entering the LAX-LAS market. For years, Southwest, Northwest (Now Delta), US Airways, American, and United have flown the 34 minutes between the two cities, shaving over 2.5-4 ...

Last week, Delta announced they would fill some holes in their network by adding thrice-daily service between Los Angeles International Airport and Seattle-Tacoma International starting this spring along with new LAX-Nashville service and they will reinstate Raleigh-Durham to Tampa service. The ...

Virgin America has announced its newest destination and it’s NEWARK! VX will start service April 2, 2013 and will serve the airport three times daily from both Los Angeles and San Francisco. This service will compliment existing service from NYC-JFK.
Right now VX is offering introductory ...

On Sunday, December 2, history was made when San Diego International saw their very first non-stop flight from Asia, land and depart on their short single runway near downtown. The Boeing 787 made this flight possible and in addition, one of the largest cities in America finally received their first ...

Early this month I got insider knowledge that Alaska Airline was expanding their footprint in the San Diego Market with new routes being Launched in 2013, which routes and new destinations was not disclosed to me, however, Alaska Air has finally announced them publically. I had initially guessed the ...

Alaska has been extremely busy lately. They’ve announce a number of new routes in the last year (including PDX-DCA, SAN-MCO, SEA-STL, SEA-SAT and more),announced their largest Boeing plane order in history, exercised all outstanding options for their B737NG models and ordering another 37 ...

Delta Airlines has been growing in Seattle for a number of years and even pre-merger Seattle was an important focus city for NWA with a number of international flights. Before the merger, Northwest Airlines and Alaska Airlines had a strategic partnership in place in Seattle, allowing Northwest ...

Late last night I leaked that Alaska would take on Allegiant Air with direct flights from Bellingham to Maui this November and sure enough today tickets went on sale! At 8:18am PST this morning Alaska Air announced publicly that they would begin service on the route! To celebrate Alaska’s ...

Alaska Airlines hasn’t announced it yet, but a little bird told me that Alaska Airline will be launching its 2nd Hawaiian destination from Bellingham (BLI) to Kahului, Maui (OGG) this autumn! The proposed schedule is to launch its first flight to Maui on a Boeing 737-800 with 16 Business ...

This time last year, Megabus did a major expansion from Washington DC, and it included service to Durham, NC where I lived at the time. This year Megabus is launching a brand new hub, Atlanta, GA. After going through withdrawl for cheap trips, I can now take Megabus again for ...

New airline routes and destinations pop up all the time and I often have trouble staying on top of these announcements. Thankfully, I no longer have to: I found a place where this information is consolidated. Here's Air Transport World's list of recently launched or upcoming new ...